White Cube used its annual Frieze Week fundraiser to raise money for two charities, Hope and Homes for Children and ClientEarth, the gallery announced on October 16. The event, held during London's Frieze Week, continues the gallery's practice of steering its seasonal fundraising toward social and environmental causes.

Hope and Homes for Children is a children's rights charity that works to move children out of orphanages and other institutions and into family-based care, arguing that children develop best within families and communities rather than institutional settings. The organization operates internationally and campaigns against the global reliance on institutional care for vulnerable children.

ClientEarth is an environmental law organization that uses litigation, legislation and advocacy to hold governments and companies to account on climate and environmental obligations. Founded in the United Kingdom, it has grown into one of the most prominent legal groups working on environmental protection, bringing cases on pollution, climate commitments and corporate responsibility.

The pairing reflects a broader tendency among major commercial galleries to align their philanthropy with the issues that animate contemporary artistic practice — child welfare and the climate crisis both being recurring concerns in current art. White Cube, which operates galleries in London, New York, Hong Kong, Paris and Seoul, has historically kept a low profile about its charitable activity, making the announcement itself a modest departure.

The gallery's statement gave no fundraising total. The timing, at the commercial peak of London's autumn art season, placed the fundraiser alongside a week of auctions, fair openings and gallery dinners that draw the art world's collectors, artists and patrons to the capital.